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Title: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mine!
Post by issunaz on 19. Aug 2006 at 22:24

Got this when I took the oil filter off

Fortunately it was the 2.5 engine that I stripped :)

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by tunnie on 19. Aug 2006 at 22:38

That looks cream crackered!!! :o

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by issunaz on 19. Aug 2006 at 23:35

"water in the oil" thats the head gasket I believe.

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by JamesV6CDX on 20. Aug 2006 at 02:37

MartinP wrote on 19. Aug 2006 at 23:35:

"water in the oil" thats the head gasket I believe.

Water in the oil could also be the Oil cooler failing/failed on the V6 models. Although there's a possibility of Headgasket trouble in this situation, I understand the V6 HGs are very resilient, and this is usually a cooler failure.

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by johnny.dee on 20. Aug 2006 at 08:37

they way I understand it is,

Water in oil, head gasket.

Oil in water, oil cooler.

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by TheBoy on 20. Aug 2006 at 10:41

That amount of water in oil is most likely HG I fear...

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by markjay on 20. Aug 2006 at 16:16

Hmmm... does not look good.... have you checked for other HG tell-tale signs? Droplets with antifreeze smell in the exhaust fumes? Compression test?

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by Marks DTM Calib on 20. Aug 2006 at 16:22

Could still be oil cooler, it dumps a fair amount of water into the oil when the engine is stopped if its failed.

Do you do them with a flake?

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by Auto Addict on 20. Aug 2006 at 18:44

Marks DTM Calib wrote on 20. Aug 2006 at 16:22:

Do you do them with a flake?

;D ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by issunaz on 20. Aug 2006 at 22:40

I did try to post yesterday but got fed up when photobucket crashed the computer twice.

The waterways are all oil free and dry, as is the outside of the oil cooler (have taken loads of pics stripping the engine down)

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by issunaz on 20. Aug 2006 at 23:04

1 head off

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by issunaz on 20. Aug 2006 at 23:18

Oil cooler

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by issunaz on 20. Aug 2006 at 23:35

both heads off and source of the problem

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by markjay on 21. Aug 2006 at 00:14

?????????? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

‘…and then, late in the afternoon, having nothing better to do for the remains of the day Issunaz removed the engine from the Omega and dismantled it, as one does….’

Ahhhmmmm……

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by MadOnVaux on 21. Aug 2006 at 09:53

MartinP wrote on 19. Aug 2006 at 22:24:

Cheers...could just go a pint of Boddingtons ;) ;D

*B#st#rd!, why dont those pics work when quoted?

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by Marks DTM Calib on 21. Aug 2006 at 10:05

That engine didn't get many coolant changes ....

Heads will probabaly want a skim and re-build before any re-use.

I love stripping engines down, much easier when removed to.

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Post by STMO123 on 21. Aug 2006 at 10:12

Am I right in thinking that the oil cooler wasn't so much of a problem on later engines?

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Post by markjay on 21. Aug 2006 at 10:48

STMO123 wrote on 21. Aug 2006 at 10:12:

Am I right in thinking that the oil cooler wasn't so much of a problem on later engines?

So did I. They replaced them with stainless steel units bla-bla-bla, but the oil cooler failed on my 2001 2.6 engine at around 30,000 miles / 3 years! luckily the car was (just) still under warranty. So sadly they do fail, even on older models and younger engines!

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Post by STMO123 on 21. Aug 2006 at 11:04

Thats good to know :(

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by issunaz on 22. Aug 2006 at 22:38

Markjay wrote on 21. Aug 2006 at 00:14:

it was after i got to this stage

swept up three time, had a cup of tea, then dismantled the engine ;)

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by markjay on 23. Aug 2006 at 00:06

MartinP wrote on 22. Aug 2006 at 22:38:

Markjay wrote on 21. Aug 2006 at 00:14:

it was after i got to this stage

swept up three time, had a cup of tea, then dismantled the engine ;)

Issunaz, you are a dangerous man with that jigsaw... ;D

Title: Re: Make your oil go further.....dilute it like mi
Post by markjay on 23. Aug 2006 at 00:08

When I saw your first picture, I was wondering why you took the engine out with the gearbox attached. Now I realised that what you actually did is cut the car away in bits until all was left was the engine and gearbox…